General non fiction

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

Jesper Bengtsson

New updated edition!In May 2011, Norstedts released Jesper Bengtsson’s biography on Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November 2010 and in February 2011 Jesper Bengtsson managed t ...

Vasa 1628

The Vasa, 1628 – the people, the ship, the times

Anders Wahlgren

The Vasa – this ship is a national treasure about which there is still a great deal to tell. Here we are taken back to Stockholm in the 1620s. King Gustav II Adolf already had a lot of power, but wanted even more. He ordered the construction of the b ...

De dödas tempel

The temple of the dead – The hunt for the solution to the Stone Age mystery

Jonathan Lindström

Buried about a foot or so down in the soil lay the carefully sorted remains of sixteen children and adults. They had lain there in the darkness since the Stone Age, surrounded by the most beautiful objects of their time in flint, bone and ceramics ar ...

Björn Borg och Wimbledon

Björn Borg and Wimbledon

Sune Sylvén

“The duels were of surprisingly high class, few misses, mainly winning shots, considering they were playing in a constant crisis situation. It seemed to be just as difficult to have an advantage in one’s favour as against one. The public almost got l ...

Det du inte såg

What you didn’t see

Patrik Sjöberg

High-jumper Patrik Sjöberg is one of Sweden’s best known and most successful sportsmen through the ages. He has won a world championship gold medal, three Olympic medals and still holds the Swedish record in high jump with his feat of 2.42 metres at ...

Vampyrernas historia

The history of vampires

Katarina Harrison Lindbergh

This book is a colourful and thorough overview of vampires and ideas about vampires over the ages. The reader is taken on a journey from the blood-thirsty demons of Mesopotamia to the vampires in the TV series True Blood, as dangerous as they are sen ...

Två kära ovänner

Two dear enemies – Churchill and de Gaulle

Knut Ståhlberg

Two dear enemies, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, walked together down the Champs Elysées to the cheering of the crowds. A dream had come true. ‘Churchill is a gangster,’ de Gaulle had said just a few months earlier. And Churchill had given ...

Oligarkerna

The Oligarchs

Claes Ericson

A dramatic depiction of capitalism in Russia after the Soviet Union’s collapse. We get to read about different subjects and events, such as the nineties vast privatizations.The growth of the mafia, 2000s state capitalism and how the oligarchs could g ...

Jussi

Jussi

Björn Ranelid

Here in Sweden we love Jussi Björling, not just for his exquisite singing but also because he was a man with strengths as well as weaknesses. In his great moments at the Metropolitan he was the urbane world tenor; in his weak moments he wasthe local ...

I Stalins våld

In Stalin’s Grip

Artur Szulc

During two years, the Soviet communist regime murdered, arrested and tortured Polish citizens in eastern Poland. The communists also deported about 320 000 Polish citizens from Eastern Poland to remote areas in the Soviet Union. Many of them perished ...

Minnen

Reminiscences

Torgny Lindgren

Torgny Lindgren writes down his reminiscences which together form a story. What is true and has actually happened, the reader will probably never find out. And that isn’t the point either. As we know, one’s memory is an extremely unreliable source. ...

Om Strindberg

On Strindberg

“And yet I am one of those people who got stuck in Strindberg’s net,” writes Lena Einhorn in her introductory chapter to this book. “He has entered my sphere, without my inviting him in.” “Getting to grips with August Strindberg – this hyperproduct ...

Toner och passioner

Tones and passions – Ludus Tonalis

Käbi Laretei

In the mid-1960s, Käbi Laretei gives a concert in Carnegie Hall. After her arrival back home, she receives a letter in which an American publisher, Clay Coss, offers to sponsor a number of concerts for her in the USA. This marks the beginning of a lo ...

Underbara dagar framför oss

Wonderful days ahead

Henrik Berggren

This is the big, definitive book about Olof Palme and his life, written with an international readership in mind. Palme’s life stretches over the epoch that is sometimes called ‘the short 20th century’. He was born eight years after the end of the Fi ...

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladislav Savic

“Why do you dislike us Russians so much?” my good friend Nikolai asks me when I visit him in Moscow in December 2008. His question is justified – in Sweden we are again hearing demands that our defence forces must be built up to protect us from the ‘ ...

I huvudet på en seriemördare

Inside the head of a serial killer

Sven Å Christianson

Few criminal acts give rise to such stark repulsion and such associations to evil as those of the serial killer, whose cruelty often stretches way beyond the wildest imagination of most people. They exhibit a total lack of empathy for other people. F ...